Mission

To empower women to break the cycle of poverty and violence by providing them with life skills and job training opportunities in the Food Industry, and long lasting rewarding life changes for themselves and their families.

Goals

•   Participants will gain the practical knowledge and skills of effective customer service, satisfaction and opportunity to apply the interpersonal skills crucial to working with co-workers and others effectively.
 

•   Participants will receive education on the importance of nutrition in relation to chronic disease prevention and participants will be able to control and raise self-awareness of lifestyle choices, and portion control in the improvement of their own overall wellness.
 

•   Participants will learn to apply practical knowledge to deliver safe food in the process by which good are received, stored, prepared and served to customers by applying the HACCP (Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point) principles.
 

•   Participants will know the components of a recipe, menu planning, perform the basics of food preparation and presentation, and apply food portion control.
 

•   Participants will gain the knowledge and training needed to run a safe food establishment through serve safe certification course and thus, will complete the serve safe certification exam and successfully obtain certification.
 

•   At the end of the training, participants will learn to create an employment portfolio with cover letter, resume, letters of recommendation and list of personal and professional references, complete an effective job application, learn effective interviewing techniques, and successfully obtain employment of her choice.
 

•   Participants will be able to obtain practical knowledge of her life skills management and how these impact personal life and the workplace.
 

•   Participants will have the knowledge of the job responsibilities and tasks to perform on a regular workday guided by work policies and procedures.